• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Spot Personal Tracker and GPS

After lots of debate, I decided to just renew my Spot service and add a PLB. http://www.acrartex.com/products/catalog/personal-locator-beacons/resqlink-plb/

There's a coupon I found over on advrider that get's you free tracking on the spot, use TRACKSPOT when you checkout, save $50.

Here's a spotwalla map of this weekend's ride, it illustrates why I spent $250 to have a PLB as well.

https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=758251ecae697d34a

You can see there's several 15-20 mile gaps while I'm in the woods. I figure it's missing multiple tracks. The Spot 3 has an option to track at 2.5 min instead of 10, maybe that would help. Bottom line is I just spend too much time in the trees. It works very reliably in the clear.

I had the Spot mounted on the tail during this ride, it's something the rear rack can handle. I've got a ram mount on the way, and will be putting it on the bars. That will likely help.

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I've heard reports that the TRACKSPOT promo works if you are adding tracking to existing service. I used it for a complete renewal, so I'm not sure. Worth a try.
 
I wasn't happy with my quick and dirty Spot mount...

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I want the space back, and I want the spot up a bit higher. Here it's got no view to the front of the bike at all. So I donated $40 to the folks at Ram to get a holder $10ish, and the other bits, $30ish, to put it up on the bars. We'll have to see if it works any better.

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I have the ram mount for the Spot 2 on my other bike mounted on a RAM. It's never going to come out of that enclosure.
 
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